* apt-pkg/acquire-item.cc:

[apt.git] / methods / gzip.cc

diff --git a/methods/gzip.cc b/methods/gzip.cc
index 55ff332701b94105de7cc6207b4a4d59e3db7bd2..f732c0b8600f227bd98e0fb088038aea4383e8c8 100644 (file)
--- a/methods/gzip.cc
+++ b/methods/gzip.cc
@@ -52,6 +52,13 @@ bool GzipMethod::Fetch(FetchItem *Itm)
    // Open the source and destination files
    FileFd From(Path,FileFd::ReadOnly);
 
+   // if the file is empty, just rename it and return
+   if(From.Size() == 0) 
+   {
+      rename(Path.c_str(), Itm->DestFile.c_str());
+      return true;
+   }
+
    int GzOut[2];   
    if (pipe(GzOut) < 0)
       return _error->Errno("pipe",_("Couldn't open pipe for %s"),Prog);